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Rewatching The Pilot

Welcome to “Lessons on Easing the Tiger and Shutting the Cakehole: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!

Up today, s1e1, The Pilot.

Dean surprises Sam at college, tells him their dad has gone missing while on a “hunting trip,” and asks him for help. On their first stop on the Find John Tour, they solve the case of a Woman in White ghost. We also get a goodly amount of setup and backstory on how the boys’ mom died (spoiler: it wasn’t by natural causes (check the name of the show)), and hints at a less-than-Normal-Rockwell childhood for Sam and Dean.

Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus may contain adult language and themes.

[and we begin:]

Lor:

that shot of the house with the tree shadow is so cool

Mace:

it IS

(ugh MARY)

Lor:

oh LOOK, it's John in his only moment of good parenting in the whole show

Mace:

Oh look, John's being a sort-of good dad

HAHAHA

Lor:

LOLOLOLOL

Mace:

okay, so, John's still up and watching TV, so WHY DOESN'T HE HAVE THE MONITOR SO MARY CAN SLEEP?!

Lor:

because he SUCKS

this freaked me out SO MUCH the first time and now I'm like "yeah, yeah, bad shit, get to Sam and Dean"

Mace:

HAHA YUP same

Lor:

(this is the only ep of SPN my dad has seen and every time I mention it now, he says "flaming woman on the ceiling!")

Mace:

SNORK! I mean that is the gist

Lor:

yeah. it cracks me up though

oh whoa, there's no sound behind the title. that's weird

Mace:

it's very weird

aw BABY SAMMY

Lor:

ADORABLE

Mace:

evidence that the show originally intended to focus on Sam: we get this whole intro bit about him first

Lor:

YEP

it's from his point of view, so to speak

Mace:

this is his world first and Dean (OUTSIDER) interrupts it

Lor:

YAS

and he thinks Dean is an intruder. which he IS but he's also family

eeeeeeeeee "Easy, Tiger"

Mace:

melts

that voice is like two octaves higher than it should be

Lor:

RIGHT?

his coat is zipped up. he never zips up his coat

Mace:

oh, yeah

Lor:

oh, Dean

Mace:

yes and also Oh, Sam

Lor:

yep

that's it that's the show

Mace:

YES

Lor:

"yeah, well. I don't want to"

Mace:

oh HONEY

Lor:

"I'm twenty-six, dude" oh, Dean

Mace:

Sam's disbelief that John would "let" him – yoicks

Lor:

right?

so, what did Dean bother him about two years ago? cause Sam has to be a senior, right?

Mace:

well now, THAT'S interesting - "I can never go home" is pretty much the S&D underlying motto

Lor:

ooooooo

god, the way what Sam's saying to Jess isn't actually a lie but it's just really really not the truth

Mace:

ooof yeah

ugh no sympathy for this dudebro [Troy]

Lor:

NOPE

enjoy getting your chest ripped out by a ghost girl, you tool

Mace:

SNORK!

"a girl like you"

like what, exactly, putz?

Lor:

yeah

Mace:

this is just about where I bailed the first time around

just the sight of that house NOPENOPENOPE

Lor:

ha!

yep, pretty much every episode in the first season scared the bejesus out of me the first time

there's still one or two that legit freak me out

Mace:

Yep

Lor:

Sammy, love, leave Dean alone. let him like things

Mace:

I love you, Sammy, but your taste in music is questionable

Lor:

SNORK

Mace:

yes, Sammy, shut your cakehole please

Lor:

lolol

"thanks, that's awfully kind of you" DEAN

Mace:

YES

I mean, they ARE absolute babies

Lor:

YES

but I think I'm counting that as Dean's first joke where he's revealing something but trying to turn things around on the other person

Mace:

Ha! the smack upside!

Lor:

YAS

Mace:

Oooh, yeah

Lor:

I LOVE the way they pick at each other like that in the early seasons

is Dean wearing SNEAKERS?

Mace:

YES

and I dunno…

Lor:

talking at the same time!

Mace:

YES

omg BOYS

Lor:

omg the fighting at the computer

Mace:

yes, do go out there at night

super smart, boys

Lor:

SUPER smart

Mace:

Oh, DEAN WINCHESTER

hold onto that "not telling the truth is not healthy" attitude, wouldja?

Lor:

HA!

OH

Sammy totally parallels Mary with the whole history of hunting and wanting a normal life and not telling the spouse about it. not that we will KNOW that until season 4, but

HA!

Mace:

YEP

Lor:

holding up the keeeeys. he's so COOL

Mace:

snork!

HAHAHAHA yes, very cool, your boy is

Lor:

lolol Sammy's glee at muddy Dean

LOL

Mace:

"you smell like a toilet" SAMMY

Lor:

lololol

LOLOLOLOL Sammy pulling him in the room

I legit laughed out loud

Mace:

ha!

Lor:

"no chick flick moments" sigh

Mace:

oh Dean

Lor:

pop that collar, baby

Mace:

so... are they drawing a parallel between the Woman in White business and Mary (wasn't she wearing a white nightgown?)?

Lor:

oooo, interesting

"my boobs"

and that's two

Mace:

Ha! yep

Mace:

her death does pretty much derail her two children's lives - causes the death of their chance at a normal life, at least

Lor:

it DOES

Mace:

THAT'S THREE

Lor:

YEP

the journal... isn't a three-ring binder later, is it?

Mace:

I can't remember

god I love that hoodie/jacket combination on Sammy

Lor:

it is adorable

(and we'll learn later that Mary is a lot more implicated in what went down that night than we know now. maybe an example of the way the show is sometimes accidentally good?)

Mace:

Ha! I never made the Medea connection here before!

(interesting)

Lor:

(but I bet putting Mary in white was a conscious decision here for the look if nothing else)

Mace:

wow, this dude is really good

Lor:

yeah

his little grin at the paper clip! ain't he neat

Mace:

Snork

Mace:

JFC

Mace:

makes me jump every time

Lor:

lol

I wasn't looking at that moment, so I was saved

Mace:

oh I see how it is - you only look when Dean is on the screen, then?

Lor:

Lolololol

no, I was looking at the compy to see if you'd sent anything

Lor:

hey, Constance, leave Sammy alone. he's not unfaithful

in fact HOW DARE

Mace:

right?! HOW DARE HE IS A SWEET STRINGBEAN

interesting that in fact Sam is the first one to get sexually harassed by a woman...

Lor:

oh, you're RIGHT

Mace:

more evidence that the show was about Sam at first

Lor:

I'll be curious to see when the Sam = mental assault, Dean = sexual assault thing starts up

Mace:

YUP

Lor:

okay, the ghost face and the flickering FREAKS ME OUT

Mace:

I hate that stuff

Lor:

YEP

Mace:

those kids are CREEPY

Lor:

RIGHT?

Lor:

"if you screwed up my car, I'll kill you”

pets him

Mace:

ha!

Lor:

oh my god, the look on Dean's face when he realizes Sam doesn't want to keep going

Mace:

yeah

poor guy

but also, like, no means no, honey

Lor:

yeah

Mace:

do people actually do that? shout for the other inhabitants immediately as they walk in the door? Like, maybe put some effort into checking around first?

Lor:

LOL

only if I needed something from them right that second

I don't want to talk to ANYONE the second I walk in the door

Lor:

there are... no women in this episode who don't die or are dead

[ed: we forgot about the girls SnD talk to in the diner, clearly. But we think the larger point stands]

Mace:

oh EXCELLENT POINT

Mace:

so my assessment of Buffy But with Dudes was not far off at first, to be honest

Lor:

HA!

"We've got work to do"

 [after the episode ended:]

Mace:

can we talk about how Dean was still there even though Sam had time to walk in and eat a cookie first?

Lor:

oooo, GOOD POINT

Mace:

so he clearly hadn't driven away yet - stayed to check that Sam was in and okay

Big brother DeanDean

Lor:

of COURSE he did

Mace:

Dean is the guy who always says, "call me when you get there" and means it

Lor:

YES

and, honestly, I'm sure that boy has never driven away after dropping anyone off till he was really sure they made it inside okay

Mace:

Agreed

Lor:

it's really a pretty amazing pilot

it sets up SO MUCH

Mace:

Yeah

Lor:

and there's only one or two moments where I feel like they're dumping info on u

Mace:

there are some awkward This Is Clearly Only Here to Set Up Backstory dialogue, but not as much as other plots

snork omg

Lor:

LOL

#us

and J2 pull it off because... J2

Mace:

yep, they have the chemistry from the start

the framing narrative is cool too - start with a flaming refrigerator woman and end with one

Lor:

"flaming refrigerator woman," omg Mace. but yes correct

Mace:

because I mean if ever there was a plot based on a woman in the refrigerator trope, this entire 15-season show IS IT

Lor:

YEP

and I have to remind myself that at this point "where the heck is John?" actually has some stakes behind it

Mace:

yeah

honestly, the whole Where Is Thumbkin John bit is the weakest part of the season

Lor:

and Dean at the very least really needs him to be okay

it REALLY is

Mace:

there are so many weird plotholes surrounding it

Lor:

mostly because it turns out he’s just being a prick and staying away from them

Mace:

EXACTLY

they let it go on too long? or something?

Lor:

yeah

Mace:

although having John around much longer than he is would also be hugely problematic

and the Absent Father thing works for its own reasons

Lor:

and this early the season-long arc really feels like a little extra added-on bit? it's really a MotW show at this point

yep

so many of the ins in this season for character dev for SnD have to do with John being Not There

Mace:

exactly so

[watchingspnagain]

Rewatching A Very Supernatural Christmas

Welcome to “I Saw Sammy Ganking Pagan Gods: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!

 Up today, s3e8: A Very Supernatural Christmas

 Once upon a balmy Michigan December, something in a red suit is coming down chimneys and hauling people away. Sam and Dean are on bad Santa’s case, and while they’re at it, Dean is angling for a proper Christmas celebration while Sam is dragging his feet hard at the idea. They visit a sketchy Christmas wonderland, go caroling (they don’t know the words, bless them), and have a beautiful brother moment where they discuss why they each feel as they do about the coming holiday. (Spoiler alert: it’s because it’s gonna be Dean’s last Christmas.) Turns out pseudo-Krampus is a pair of pagan gods masquerading as a middle-aged couple named Edward and Madge, and after a hilarious (and disgusting) torture scene, the boys dispatch them with their own festive decorations. Throughout the episode are interspersed flashbacks to the Christmas when Sam learned the truth about why John is never around, Dean tried to create Christmas for his brother through theft, and Sam gave Dean the amulet that he now never takes off. The final scene of the episode sees present-day Sam giving Dean the best Christmas he can, complete with tree, presents, eggnog, and a football game on the TV while outside snow finally drifts down on Baby.

 Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.

 [and we begin:]

 Lor:

 Christmas with the boys! bounces

Mace:

 YAAAAS!

 it looks like there’s a bowl of potatoes on the table

  Lor:

 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  Mace:

 festive

  Lor:

 I was wondering what those were! Oranges?

  Mace:

 apples, I think?

  Lor:

 THE TITLE CARD

  Mace:

 YAS

 “up on the rooftop demon seeeeed"

 oooh, fix that collar, Sam

  Lor:

 mrrrrrg Dean in his suit and with his riiiiing

  Mace:

 YAS

  Lor:

 LOLOLOLOLOLOL

 LORD those suits are nicely tailored in the shoulders

  Mace:

 POPPED COLLAR

  Lor:

 YES

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 DEAN you know you've watched Mary Poppins, stop it

  Mace:

 YEP

  Lor:

 "yeah, that's crazy." "yeah."

  Mace:

 HAHAHA

  Mace:

 SAM SAID LORE EVERYONE DRINK

  Lor:

 YAAAAS

  Mace:

 HE SAID IT AGAIN DRIIIINK

  Lor:

 "santa doesn't have a brother."

  Mace:

 snork

  Lor:

 chugs water

 "who's childhood are you talking about?"

oooooof

boys

  Mace:

 “not exactly hallmark memories” dude, those were the best memories Dean has

  Lor:

 YEP

 "a pony" SASSY BABY SAM

  Mace:

 YAS

learnt it from his brother!dad

  Lor:

 YES

 "because everywhere we go, they get sick of your face" haaaaahahahaha

  Mace:

 SNORK Jesus, Dean

  Lor:

 so perfectly twelve

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 DRINK AGAIN

  Mace:

 LORE! DRINK!

HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

 LOLOLOLOLOL

  Mace:

 “we only came here to watch” HAHAHA

  Lor:

 Dean's little head shake

  Mace:

 “ew"

 HAHAHAHAHA

 Dean’s laugh!

  Lor:

 "thanks a lot, Dean. thanks for that"

 YES

  Lor:

 "that was Ripple"

  Mace:

 I love the parallels between adult boys and boy boys

  Lor:

 YES

 Sam drank all the coffee and then later in the flashback Dean gives Sammy the end of the cereal! I never picked up on that one before [Ed: that’s a different episode, of course. But still!]

  Mace:

 OMG YAS

 omg the bong

  Lor:

 "mr gung-ho christmas might have to blow away santa"

 YES

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 THE SINGING

  Mace:

 “jingle my bells"

  Lor:

 LOLOLOLOLOLOL

  Mace:

 AND THEY DON’T KNOW THE WORDS

  Lor:

 THEY DON'T KNOW THE WORDS

  Mace:

 hilarious and tragic

  Lor:

 YEP

and then this immediate switch to the beautiful version of the song and the big Christmas living room set up

  Mace:

 and all these versions of the perfect christmas (both the houses where people get attacked and the pagan gods’ house) look beautiful but are awful, but then at the end Sam & Dean get an on-the-surface shitty christmas that is way more wholesome

 YES

  Lor:

 YESYESYES

 Dean's FACE when Sam asks about the wreath

  Mace:

 Dean’s confused face at the wreath question

YAS

  Lor:

 and he wants to try to back Sam up but he's got NOTHING

  Mace:

 YES

 my god those SUITS

  Lor:

 "I know. I was just testing you" pets him

 YES

 "that we're morons"

  Mace:

 oh Dean, your pants are on fire

 LORE! DRIIINK!!

  Lor:

 lolololololol

  Mace:

 SING IT, SAMMY

  Lor:

 "what will you tell me next? Easter bunny's Jewish?" hush, Dean, you love that Sam knows all these things

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 "we were playing Jenga over at the Walshes the other night"

  Mace:

 “it was yummy”

 HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

 Dean playing on the thing where people are assuming they're gay, I cannot

  Mace:

 YEP

  Lor:

 "I sell a lot of wreaths, guys"

  Mace:

 SNORK

  Lor:

 "people pay a buttload for this crap"

  Mace:

 HAHAHA

  Lor:

 oh Dean

  Mace:

 yeah, and I love you Sam, but THINK. This is his last Christmas

  Lor:

 RIGHT?

bc Sam refuses to accept that, I think

  Mace:

 yeah

oh Sammy.

  Lor:

 the way Sam's voice breaks on "dead"

  Mace:

 BOYS. FRAUGHT

  Lor:

 YES

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 the way they just sit there

  Mace:

 YEP

  Lor:

 is John's journal thinner than it is later? that's an awesome detail

  Mace:

 “are monsters real?” and the parallel to losing your Santa innocence

 it IS

  Lor:

 YES

  "we have the coolest dad in the world" oh, Dean

  Mace:

 yeeeeah

  Lor:

 oh baby Winchesters. it is exactly like that

  Mace:

 YEP

 Jesus, how did they grow up as functioning adults at all?!

  Lor:

 RIGHT?

it's because Dean is an astounding human

and Bobby

  Mace:

 YEP

 “oh fudge!”

  Lor:

 YES

 awww, Dean wants some peanut brittle

  Mace:

 aw, let him have some peanut brittle

  Lor:

 RIGHT?

 Sammy's always harshing Dean's desire to take sweets from strangers

  Mace:

 he IS

 stupid salads

  Lor:

 HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

 "see? plastic!"

I luff him

  Mace:

 snork!

 ewewewewew

  Lor:

 (don't lots of people have good locks on their interior basement doors? because there's likely a shitty door to the outside down there that doesn't lock good? or at all?)

  Mace:

 (hm. possibly?)

  Lor:

 see, if you comment on irrelevant things at length, you can not look at the ew

  Mace:

 HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

 stop hurting their heads! that's where all the knowledge and humor lives!

 "I guess we're dealing with mr and mrs god. nice to know"

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 "don't get all wet"

I love these two

  Mace:

 YAS

  Lor:

"i guess we'll just have to cancel the sacrifice"

  Mace:

 HAHAHA

  Lor:

 they DO look darling. but hands off, Madge

  Mace:

 YAS

  Lor:

 "times have changed!"

 "this Jesus character"

  Mace:

“this Jesus character”

 YAS

  Lor:

 YES

  Mace:

 omg the WINK

  Lor:

 YES

 "oh my goodness me! someone owes a nickel to the swear jar"

  Mace:

 “I’LL FUDGING KILL YOU”

I LOVE HIM

  Lor:

 "if you fudging touch me again, I'll fudging kill ya!" "very good"

 YES

 NOPE

  Mace:

 NOPENOPENOPENOPE

  Lor:

 the fingernail NOPENOPENOPE

  Mace:

 CORRECT

oh god, I’m still cringing

  Lor:

 YEP

and it gets worse

TEETH

 "sweet Peter on a popsicle stick"

  Merry Christmas, Sam

  Mace:

 HAHAHA

 this is too soon. i’m having a tooth pulled in a couple of weeks

  Lor:

 "somebody gonna get that?" HIS COMEDIC TIMING JENSEN

 ooooooof

  Mace:

 YAS

  Lor:

 tsk tsk tsk, you left Winchesters unattended

  Mace:

 yep. big mistake

  Lor:

 YEP

 using all that "perfect" house stuff as weapons. the big hutch, the perfect tree

  Mace:

 they’re gonna be so sappy-sticky when they get home...

 YES

  Lor:

 YEP

they should pick up some baking soda on the way home

  Mace:

 yep

  Lor:

 Dean's like full body eye roll at Sam's "merry christmas"

  Mace:

 HAHAHA YES

 oh god, Dean.

 you’ve got too much on those little shoulders

  Lor:

 Dean as Santa Claus/Dean as father

 YOU DO

  Mace:

 YAS

  Lor:

 oh Dean. disappointed that the presents don't actually work for Sam

  Mace:

 YEP

 also, FUCK YOU, JOHN

  Lor:

 RIGHT?

 "no. no, that's for Dad" over the present

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 Dean's not allowed to have things

  Mace:

 and Sam choosing Dean over John

  Lor:

 YES

  Mace:

 this right here is the pivotal moment for Sam

  Lor:

 and Dean still wearing it all these years later

 YES

  Mace:

 YAASSS

 omg their FACES

  Lor:

 SAM'S DECORATING

  Mace:

 Sam hopeful, Dean’s astonishment

  Lor:

 YES

the eggnog is too strong for him I can't

  Mace:

 YES

 Dean’s delight that he got presents

  Lor:

 YES

and Dean CARES if Sam is happy with those last-second presents

  Mace:

 and so does SAM I CANNOT

  Lor:

 YEP

  Mace:

 you can’t tell me that they don’t keep those silly presents FOREVER

  Lor:

 YEP

  Mace:

 oh god, they’re both about to cry

BOYS

  Lor:

 (I also love that Sam's presents to Dean are better than Dean's presents to Sam both in the present and the past)

 YES

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 that face Dean makes with the drink

 THIS SHOOOOOOOT

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 through the window. snow. lights. BABY IS WITH THEM

  Mace:

 YES

   Lor:

 such a good episode

[watchingspnagain]

Rewatching What Is and What Should Never Be

Welcome to “Dean Dreams of Jeannie and Mowing and Dead Moms, Oh My!: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!

 Up today, s2,e20: What Is and What Should Never Be

 Dean is driving around alone while Sammy is researching lore on djinns. Sammy has Dean scoping out an area where he thinks the djinn might be hiding and taking victims. When Dean enters an abandoned warehouse, he’s attacked by a djinn and then wakes up in an apartment in Lawrence next to a beautiful woman named Carmen. The boys’ mom is alive, their dad died recently in his sleep, Sam is in law school, and Dean is a mechanic dating Carmen, a respectable nurse. But Sam and Dean are practically estranged, and since none of the Winchesters have ever been hunting things and saving people, a whole lot of people are dead who should have lived. It’s Dean’s version of a lovely life, conjured for him by the djinn, and he has to fight his desire for a normal life to get out of it.

 Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.

 [and we begin:]

 Mace:

 chicks DO dig the danger vibe

  Lor:

 YES WE DO

Lor:

omg Dean and his TV habits. 60s SITCOMS. I love him

  Mace:

 YAS

he dreams of Jeannie

  Lor:

 YEAH HE DOES

I had a brief crush on the dude on that show as a kid

  Mace:

 HAHAHAHA awesome

I always wanted to BE her

i loved her little lamp pad

  Lor:

 ooo NICE

i had a crush on Samantha from Bewitched though

 the horror movie on TV

 THE NECKLACE AND NO SHIRT

  Mace:

 NICE

 YES and YAAASSS

  Lor:

 and it's not the samulet. because of course it isn't

  Mace:

 omg Sam’s little smile on the phone

 of course it isn't

  Lor:

 YES

and the closing the law book when he was doing lore research before

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 the kind of grimace in the kill

*kiss. omg

  Mace:

 HAHAHA OMG

  Lor:

 oh Dean. this bit kills me

 AND THE HORN

  Mace:

 yeah

  Lor:

 "I don't know" and his voice

  Mace:

 I wonder, do other djinn victims fight the illusion like this/are they aware something’s not right, or is it just Dean

  Lor:

 oooo interesting question

  Mace:

 ANGEL(s) ARE WATCHING OVER YOU, DEAN

  Lor:

 YEAH THEY ARE

  Mace:

 “you’re beautiful” DEAD

DEAN WINCHESTER, YOU NUGGET

  Lor:

 YES

he's such a sweetheart

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 her "excuse me"

  Mace:

 yeah

  Lor:

 omg my little touch-starved muffin

  Mace:

 RIGHT?!

  Lor:

 "no no I don't think they can really do it"

  Mace:

 HAHAHA

  Lor:

 he should be more excited

  Mace:

 i think he’s...concerned

  Lor:

 well, fair

 "everybody keeps asking me that but uh... no"

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 pets him

  Mace:

 “we’re civilians"

  Lor:

 YES

 Dean, honey, I'm gonna need you to pay more attention to things in the road, just generally

  Mace:

 snork

  Mace:

 omg his delight at mowing the lawn

  Lor:

 the look she gives him "what is with this one?"

 YES

and the music!

and he's bad at it

I love it

  Mace:

 that this is part of his perfect world is so flipping SAD

  Lor:

 YES

  Mace:

 his wants are so simple yet so unattainable

  Lor:

 YES

he just wants to have a cold beer on the step after mowing the lawn

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 he is SO HAPPY for everyone else

  Mace:

 YES

 “I’ve just got low standards” HAHAHA

she’s saucy

  Lor:

 YES

 oh Dean. your self-esteem, hon. maybe an angel could come along and tell you how awesome you are

  Mace:

 I need to know how much of this is the djinn and how much of it is the force of Dean’s will and his self-doubt skewing the illusion the djinn is trying to give him

  Lor:

 YES

 "so... respectable"

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 I wanna know what the necklace IS

  Mace:

 oooh yeah

  Lor:

 "why's it my job to save these people? why do I have to be some kind of hero?"

  Mace:

 YAS

  Lor:

 god the silent crying

  Mace:

 he’s Odysseus and Aeneas wrapped up in a SNACK BOX

 YES

  Lor:

 HAAAAAHAHAHA snack box omg

  Mace:

 takes a bow

  Lor:

 wow that bit is an echo from the pilot when Dean first comes into Sam's apartment. I don't think I ever realized that before

 "Sam, I'm sorry."

gaaaaaah

  Mace:

 yep and YEP

  Lor:

 "you're supposed to say jerk" ooof

  Mace:

 “what are you calling me a bitch for?"

  HAHAHAHA

YES

  Lor:

 YES

 I love how casual he is about taking the phone and throwing it out the window

  Mace:

 “oh, that’s hilarious"

 YES

  Lor:

 "we're not in Kansas anymore" DEAN I LUFF YOU

  Mace:

 YES

have we talked about the theory that you can’t go more than a week without hearing or seeing a reference to the wizard of oz?

  Lor:

 what NO?!

  Mace:

 this guy I went to grad school with posed the theory and it’s true. or at least it was 20 years ago

  Lor:

 iiiiinteresting

now I have to keep notes, of course

  Mace:

 we used to shout out “REFERENCE” every time we saw or heard one, which generally was more than once a week

  Lor:

 NICE

  Mace:

 I super love this version of the djinn

  Lor:

YES

he is cool and CREEEPY

  Mace:

 YES

and a creative interpretation of the myths

  Lor:

 "this is real? you're not crazy?"

 YES

  Mace:

 this is where I go a bit cross-eyed, though: HOW is he here and in the illusion at the same time?!

or does that gets explained and I just don’t remember

  Lor:

 I don't get how this works though. how can he be DREAMING and also be where this is actually happening? or is he slightly waking up and seeing her and then working it into the dream?

  Lor:

 HAAAAHAHAHA OMG MACE

  Mace:

 HAHAHAHAH OMG LOR

HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA

  Lor:

 lololololololol

 oh look, Dean's explaining it to us

  Mace:

 HA

  Lor:

 "like 90% sure"

  Mace:

 HAHAHA

  Lor:

 "it's still better than anything you had"

gaaaaah

AND he still mostly gives the good things to other people

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 "get some rest"

does a little jig and sings a little song that goes "fuck 327"

  Mace:

 YAAASSS

 REFERENCE!

  Lor:

 Iiiiii might REALLY like it when he's sick-looking

 YAS

  Mace:

 HAHAHA YES

  Lor:

 ouch, Sammy, your head DANG

  Mace:

 always with the head

  Lor:

 yeah

Sam gets hit in the head, Dean gets sexually assaulted

there is SUCH a paper in there somewhere

  Mace:

 YES

  Lor:

 oooof Carmen is a beer ad

oh Dean

 Sam is wearing that shirt I love

  Mace:

 YAS

  Lor:

 "yeah lucky me"

  Mace:

 OOOF

  Lor:

 "I wanted to stay. I wanted to stay so bad" gaaaaaah

  Mace:

 AAAAAAAAAA

  Lor:

 "it's worth it" and then the look on Dean's faaaaaaaace

  Mace:

 YEEEESSS

  Lor:

sigh one of my favs, that one

  Mace:

 it’s really good